Christine Quinn Quotes
I'm an aggressive woman who gets things done, and that's the way it is, and I've never been embarrassed about the fact that I am pushy.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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A store is just a collection of content. The Steam store is this very safe, boring entertainment experience. Nobody says, 'I'm going to play the Steam store now.'
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
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I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.
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I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.
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In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I'd win, but still there would be tears.
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I can watch a movie and go, 'Oh, my god, that person is acting.' If you just listen to what the other person is saying, your response will always be genuine.
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When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
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I've never read a self help book... the most self-help I've read is on a beer mat.
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I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well.
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I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.
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Music, even if I ended up doing something different or do end up doing something different in the long run, it's just something that is life blood. If I'm not participating in some way, I feel like I'm wasting my time.
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I'm an aggressive woman who gets things done, and that's the way it is, and I've never been embarrassed about the fact that I am pushy.
